Banzai

The Marines have landed on Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific, and after a hard battle to secure the beach, they are sweeping inland, pushing the Japs before them. The battle is almost over, and the island is about to fall. Yet it isn’t over, and the Japanese Imperial Army has other ideas.

Second Platoon, Company C, leads the way on a sweep across the island. A search and destroy mission that comes close to disaster when the new platoon commander makes a bad mistake and disappears, a prisoner of the enemy. Ordered by battalion to take on another task, Jesse Ferrell and his buddy Dan O’Neill have other ideas. He is one of their own, and they don’t intend to leave any man behind.

The track the retreating enemy to a camp on the opposite side of the atoll. The find the Lieutenant, and they find something else. The battle is no over. The Japs are regrouping, and this time they intend to win.

Banzai is the eighth shortread novel in the ‘Heroes of the Pacific’ series of fictional war stories set during World War II in the Pacific. The book is a collaboration between Todd McLeod and Eric Meyer, the bestselling author of more than fifty war novels.


Genre: Thriller